fishinwrench

Y'all and your "points" 🙄 Have you ever considered that all that talk about POINTS might be a conspiracy to keep you out there on those places, and out of the way. 😂

Do the masks keep you from smelling farts?

Wish I could claim that, but unfortunately I did it because it was hot out there, they were busy as hell but she still made us feel like royalty, I didn't have any smaller bills and I wanted to save her the trip back to give me my change. I'd do it again and announce that it was for OA but we don't go out very often.....and let's get real, I can't afford to be doing that very often. Have you ever tipped so graciously that it offended your wife? I didn't realize that was possible...... but it is. 😅

If people had never been told anything about COVID19 then nobody would even recognize that anything was out of the ordinary. They should rename this illness and call it what it really is.....Brain Flu.

Oh you mean the ones that show up in nearly new cars, carrying Coach purses and texting on an Apple 11Pro while standing in line? Yeah, no. Tell ya what though, I gave a very pleasant and hard working waitress a tip big enough to make her cry yesterday. Is that good enough? 😊

Well first off, I don't care how many brush piles you build, and how many tournaments you take a check in.....You aren't going to make a profit. Profit means that your income exceeds your investment. I studied HARD on ways to profit from the fishing industry, and chose to invest in the avenue that required the least investment and made the most sense.

I have this annoying hangup about "charitable organizations". It feels great to give directly to someone and genuinely help them out, but to give money to an "organization" that is collecting money for a cause, knowing full well that there are people in between you and the effected ones getting paid to do their part..... I just refuse to do it. 🙄

Thank you! I'm anxious to get out there.

Your level of success at Lake Shelbyville probably indicated whether or not you made to right choice. 😁

My wife's aunt, who loves to argue religion with me, said the same thing about their Baptist preacher. I said, it doesn't matter because you have obviously been misunderstanding him all along anyway. 😂 5 of the 6 people in the room at the time, nearly fell to the floor. Checkmate, ya old hag! 😇

BH will probably compete. I'll judge if you want me to....but I'm ignorant to duck talk. Ignorant to turkey, deer, crow, squirrel, and injured rabbit talk too. I learned a long time ago that the best thing for me to do with game calls is to leave them in my pocket.

Excellent idea. Do it!

According to dock talk they are 12-22' around brush.... but that is probably just because that's where everyone is automatically programmed to fish after the spawn. I get lightheaded and dizzy if my boat sets over water that is more than 20'.

Yeah I've thought about it, but since I did it myself for quite awhile I try to not be hypocritical, and just pound the drum about immediate release. Although back when I did it there wasn't 50-70 tournaments per month on every body of water in the country. There was maybe 8-12 per month, so it didn't seem near as rediculous.

Nah, that's one of those fancy streamer strippin' condoms.

Easy now! I never got to go THERE....Mary jo wasn't no floozie. She just really improved the looks of that island, so much that I never floated past it afterwards without thinking of her. 😍 Same deal with Sally's bridge. We just held hands🤗 I was a very respectable young man ! 😊 Those girls had Daddy's and brothers that nobody (especially me) wanted to be on their $#!t list.

Being a relatively shallow water guy I prefer rock piles over brush. A rockpile under a dock walkway or directly under a cable is MONEY 9 months out of the year. Deep brush is typically only good for a season or two unless you continually add to it, but I'm still catching fish off relatively shallow rockpiles that I built 15+ years ago. I can pull up to one and drop a bait right in the sweet spot on the first try. A deep brush pile is gonna take several casts even if I know exactly where it is, and they always seem to break down, spread apart and move around. If I made my living fishing/guiding I'd definitely do alot more brush sinking, but that's way too much hard work for a guy that just fishes for fun. Several of the leading tournament anglers on LO spend alot of time sinking brush (or paying others to) within 2 miles of there. I used to know a pair of old retired guys that would drop a sizable brush pile from the dam to the 6mm and send you the GPS coordinate for 40.00 and when you think about the work involved.....that ain't a bad deal at all. I'm sure there's someone with an old pontoon doing a similar side-gig in the Glaize arm. I know I'd rather pay someone 250.00 to sink 6 big piles than to do it myself.

That's hilarious. And your 100% right. I bet that Mary Jo island is probably gone now, and Sally's bridge got a facelift more than 20 years ago..... probably due for another one.

Oh I know. That's what I was always told growing up though.

I was raised to believe that you shouldn't eat a rabbit before the first hard freeze. No idea why. And to always check the liver for specks, and throw them out if their liver wasn't slick and brown looking.

FWIW I run 42# in all of my trailer tires regardless of what it says on the sidewall. They wear nice and even whether it's my Jon boat, bassboat, or pontoon. It just looks and feels more appropriate.

Happens all the time here at my place. Sometimes during the middle of the night, but usually mid-day when it's hot. Luckily I've never been walking past one when it decided to explode. Scares the crap out of us everytime one of them blows. It's strictly a TRAILER TIRE thing. I've never seen a car/truck tire do that.

Oh hell Mitch, insurance will take care of it. I felt worse for YOU when your boat got creamed. Did anyone get arrested over that one?

Trolling motors and sonar units actually fared better back when they didn't weigh so much. The heavier the objects you bolt to the bow....the worse the damage they can cause. It might seem cool that your new trolling motor mount is built like a tank, but that SOB is HEAVY, and it's bolted to a plywood-backed fiberglass cap....which is attached to the hull with some 3/16 rivets and some silicone. Start hammering that hull around and something is gonna give. Used to be the transom was what you carefully inspected before buying a used bass boat. Not anymore! The thing to do now is grab hold of that rub-rail up front, pull up hard and twist on both sides, and see how much slop the top cap has. If the boat has had a Fortrex or similar badass TM mount bolted to it.....I guarantee you'll have some movement up there, and it's gonna get worse with every wave you cross.

Listen. That person has enough money in the bank, and enough investments and holdings to sustain him for a good while, possibly the rest of his days. He can escape this "peril" overnight. I'm trying really hard but I just can't feel sorry for him. Move on sir, go enjoy the fruits of your success that you've been working your whole life for.